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We believe that a community can only reach its full potential by involving everyone in its social and economic life. Our programs empower women and girls by expanding access to education, increasing economic opportunity, and providing critical health care to young mothers and their newborns. Our goal is to lift millions of women out of poverty—and with them, their families and entire communities.

Building on our work to scale up HIV testing and treatment for children, CHAI’s Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) program takes a comprehensive approach to stopping new pediatric infections.

Most low-income countries have national immunization programs that routinely vaccinate 70 to 90 percent of their infants. The eight vaccines included in most programs, together, usually cost less than $20 per infant.

When the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) began working on pediatric HIV/AIDS in 2005, kids were being left behind. Only one in 40 children in need were on treatment, compared to one in eight adults.

The Anchor Farm Project is a CDI-operated commercial farm that partners with thousands of neighboring smallholder farmers, providing them with access to quality inputs for maize and soy production as well as training and market access.

In one of the first efforts of its kind, the Alliance for a Healthier Generation is providing guidance for communities nationwide to transform the areas where kids spend their time before school, after school, and during school breaks.

The Clinton Health Access Initiative Ramotse Clinic in Hammanskraal, South Africa sees between 2,000 and 2,500 patients per month and offers services such as HIV counseling and testing, immunization, antiretroviral treatment, and home-based care.

Women of the Zanzibar Association of People Living with HIV and AIDS (ZAPHA+). The Clinton Health Access Initiative has helped ZAPHA+ organize psychosocial sessions and peer education programs, and provided guidance on creating income generating activities for ZAPHA+ members.

An HIV-positive mother and her HIV-negative child have are benefiting from Clinton Health Access Initiative's prevention of mother-to-child transmission programs in Kenya. These programs have reduced mother-to-child HIV transmission rates by 40 percent across six countries.

A mother embraces her child outside of the Butaro Hospital in Rwanda. This was the final hospital in Rwanda to be built with the Rwandan government’s Rural Health Initiative, in partnership with the Clinton Foundation and Partners In Health.

In Rwanda, the Clinton Development Initiative is helping women increase their livelihoods and reduce malnutrition by developing soybean production cooperatives and businesses, aiming to provide reliable, long-term buyers for local produce and offer farmers low prices for inputs.

The Anchor Farm Project operates five commercial farms in the Kasungu and Mchinji districts of Malawi and partners with 21,000 neighboring smallholder farmers, providing them with access to quality inputs for maize and soy production as well as training and market access.

The Clinton Development Initiative (CDI) Anchor Farm Project partners with 21,000 neighboring smallholder farmers – 35% of whom are female – and provides them with access to quality inputs for maize and soy production as well as training and market access.

Four female farmers that are part of the Clinton Development Initiative's Anchor Farm Project tend to their plots in the field. CDI operates five commercial farms in the Kasungu and Mchinji districts of Malawi to provide farmers with quality inputs and training as well as market access.

A woman holds her child at the Anchor Farm Project in Santhe, Malawi. The Clinton Foundation runs the Anchor Farm Project in Malawi, which operates five commercial farms that partners with 21,000 neighboring smallholder farmers – 35 percent of whom are women.

Triana Villalba fits a garment at Cotextil del Caribe S.A.S, a company that has partnered with local hotels to deliver high quality products. This program is part of the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership's Hotel Supplier Network Project. Photo by: José Luis Barrera

Marta Montes shows off the new gardening methods she learned from the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership's Hotel Supplier Network Project. Through the project, small producers have built capacity, gained access to new markets, and increased sales. Photo by: José Luis Barrera

Belkis Perez helps a customer at a supermarket in Barranquilla, Colombia. Belkis is a member of the job placement project sponsored by the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership and Shakira's Fundacion Pies Descalzos. Photo by: José Luis Barrera

Empowering Women & Girls

More About Our Work Empowering Women and Girls

Women are the world’s most underserved—and undervalued—resource. At present, they make up 70% of the world’s poor and earn only 10% of its income, despite producing over half its food. Studies suggest that if women’s paid employment rates were raised to the same levels as men’s, per capita income in some of our fastest-growing economies would rise 20 percent by 2030. Studies also show that a woman is apt to invest her income in her family. Eighty cents of every dollar she earns goes toward health care, nutrition, and housing for her kids.

We believe that a community can only reach its potential by involving everyone in its social and economic life. That’s why we build programs to empower women and girls, and why we focus on expanding access to education; expanding economic opportunity; and providing critical health care to young mothers and their newborns. Our goal is to lift millions of women out of poverty—and with them, families and whole communities.